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Archive for March, 2014

O Lord, Our Father, I join my brothers and sisters in one accord and we have come to give You thanks, we say You are too too much, Your reign is Supreme, You changeth not, Your faithfulness endureth from one generation to another, we exalt You for all that You Alone did for us throughout the month of March, Lord, even though we try, we can never never be able to pay You back for all that You have been doing for us, we plead with You to accept our burnt offering of thanksgiving as we worship in Jesus Name. Amen, Amen and Amen.

Abba Father, the more we keep trying to understand You to the very last, You keep on surprising us that is to say that no creations of Yours, has the ability of knowing You to the very last, we are humbled by the personality of Your Person and we will forever praise, worship, adore, reverence and magnify You Alone as long as we live, we praise in Jesus Name. Amen, Amen and Amen.

God Of All Divine Packages, we bless You Lord, for forgiving us all our sins throughout this month, we praise You for the grace, anointing, wisdom, strength that You Alone endowed us with throughout this month, we praise You in Jesus Name. Amen and we adore You for all the healing, deliverance, victories, blessings, favours, promotions, You have showed us with throughout this month, we magnify You in Jesus Name. Amen and we lift Your Name on High, for been the lifter of our heads throughout this month and we reverence You for causing us to move, walk and live in Your glory throughout this month even as we reverence You in Jesus Name. Amen, Amen and Amen.

Police nationwide may be listening in on phone calls or reading text messages to find suspects thanks to a device called Stingray – but they’re refusing to reveal details about its use.

Law enforcement officials say Stingray, a suitcase-size device that pretends it’s a cell tower, is useful for catching criminals, but that’s about all they’ll say.

For example, they won’t disclose details about contracts with the device’s top manufacturer, Harris Corp., insisting they are protecting both police tactics and commercial secrets.

The secrecy — at times imposed by non-disclosure agreements signed by police — is pitting obligations under private contracts against government transparency laws.

Even in states with strong open records laws, including Florida and Arizona, little is known about police use of Stingray and any rules governing it.

A Stingray device tricks all cellphones in an area into electronically identifying themselves and transmitting data to police rather than the nearest phone company’s tower.

Because documents about Stingrays are regularly censored, it’s not immediately clear what information the devices could capture, such as the contents of phone conversations and text messages, what they routinely do capture based on how they’re configured or how often they might be used. source – Daily Mail UK

Obama has been relentless in his quest to slash the US Military budget, and it is now paying dividends for our enemies. As the United States has lost its foothold in Latin America, Russia, China and Iran have stepped in to fill that void. The balance of power in the world is going through a major shift right now as America begins to take a back seat.

The Hill: Away from the conflict in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin is quietly seeking a foothold in Latin America, military officials warn. To the alarm of lawmakers and Pentagon officials, Putin has begun sending navy ships and long-range bombers to the region for the first time in years.

Russia’s defense minister says the country is planning bases in Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua, and just last week, Putin’s national security team met to discuss increasing military ties in the region.

“They’re on the march,” Sen. Joe Donnelly (D-Ind.) said at a Senate hearing earlier this month. “They’re working the scenes where we can’t work. And they’re doing a pretty good job.”

Gen. James Kelly, commander of U.S. Southern Command said there has been a “noticeable uptick in Russian power projection and security force personnel” in Latin America.

“It has been over three decades since we last saw this type of high-profile Russian military presence,” Kelly said at the March 13 hearing.

The U.S. military says it has been forced to cut back on its engagement with military and government officials in Latin America due to budget cuts. Kelly said the U.S. military had to cancel more than 200 effective engagement activities and multi-lateral exercises in Latin America last year. With the American presence waning, officials say rivals such as Russia, China and Iran are quickly filling the void. source – The Hill

BELBEK AIRBASE, Crimea, March 22 (Reuters) – Russian troops forced their way into a Ukrainian airbase in Crimea with armored vehicles, automatic fire and stun grenades on Saturday, injuring a Ukrainian serviceman and detaining the base’s commander for talks.

A Reuters reporter said armored vehicles smashed through one of walls of the compound and that he heard bursts of gunfire and grenades.

Colonel Yuliy Mamchur, the commander of the base, said a Ukrainian serviceman had been injured and that he himself he was being taken away by the Russians for talks at an unspecified location.

Asked if he thought he would return safely, he said: “That remains to be seen. For now we are placing all our weapons in the base’s storage.”

Belbek was one of the last military facilities in Crimea still under Ukrainian control following Russia’s armed takeover and subsequent annexation of the peninsula, which has a majority ethnic Russian population and is home to one of Russia’s biggest naval bases.

Earlier, the deputy commander of the base, Oleg Podovalov, said the Russian forces surrounding the base had given the Ukrainians an hour to surrender.

After the Russians entered, a Ukrainian officer who identified himself only as Vladislav said: “We did not provoke this, this was brute force. I do not know whether this base will be formally in Russian hands by the end of the day. source – Huffington Post

“There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.”Genesis 6:4,7

About the only thing this Noah movie seems to have taken from the Genesis account of the flood is they spelled Noah’s name correctly. Past that, it seems to be a free-for-all in the artistic license department. The bible tells us that God (who is never mentioned by Name in the movie) sent the flood because fallen angels had mated with human women and produced a demonic offspring known as Nephilim, (the Hebrew word for giants). But in this movie, the Nephilim are the ones helping Noah build the boat. Typical liberal nonsense of making the bad guys into good guys. Progressives love revisionist history.

Adding to the non-biblical nature of this movie, there is a running undercurrent of “green” propaganda from the “climate change” people – Foraging with one of his sons, Noah instructs, “We only collect what we need, what we can use.” A movie like this is designed to cast doubt on the accuracy and believablity of the bible as true and trustworthy.

Hollywood Reporter: The narrative of the global flood that wiped out almost all earthly life is the original disaster story, one that’s embraced by most of the major world religions, which means that conservative and literal-minded elements of all faiths who make it their business to be offended by untraditional renditions of holy texts will find plenty to fulminate about here.

Already banned in some Middle Eastern countries, Noah will rile some for the complete omission of the name “God” from the dialogue, others for its numerous dramatic fabrications and still more for its heavy-handed ecological doomsday messages, which unmistakably mark it as a product of its time. But whether you buy these elements or not, this is still an arresting piece of filmmaking that has a shot at capturing a large international audience both for its fantasy-style spectacle and its fresh look at an elemental Bible story most often presented as a kiddie yarn.

One of the striking things about the Noah tale is that it presents a fallible Creator, one who admits to disappointments over shortcomings in the product of the sixth day of creation with the remark, “I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the ground, man and beast and creeping things and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them.” The exceptions are middle-aged Noah (RussellCrowe), his wife, Naameh (JenniferConnelly), and sons Shem (DouglasBooth), Ham (LoganLerman) and Japheth (LeoCarroll), who are estranged from the rest of humanity and live apart from it, struggling to survive in forbidding surroundings. source – Hollywood Reporter

“Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.”-Genesis 2:3

One day, my wife put together the Ten Commandments on this big piece of butcher paper. It was huge! She fastened it to the wall opposite our bed so that when I came into our bedroom, it was like whoa, okay! Hi, Moses!

So, we’re sitting in bed, talking at night before we go to bed. We’re praying with one another. Couples who pray together, stay together. Don’t forget that. And we were talking about these Ten Commandments. She’s staring at the scripture. We’re both looking at it. It’s a bit daunting because it’s the law, but she says, “Which one of these Ten Commandments do you think is most often broken?” So, I went through them all, examined them, and you can make a debate for many of them, but I said, “I’m going to go with number four: Honor the Sabbath and keep it holy.”

Now that is something that has been forgotten, not as much in Judaism, of course, but in large part, it has been forgotten in Christianity, this idea that God calls us to have a holy, tranquil, sweet rest on the Sabbath. There is this idea that we’re supposed to cease, to yield, to quit, to stop every once in awhile. There’s something about that which is built into our very nature.

Prayer: Dear Lord, my soul calls out for rest. Amidst the busyness of life, I need time with you that is quiet and time with my loved ones that is not rushed. Thank you for the gift of the Sabbath. Amen.

“Jesus answered, ‘I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.'”-John 14:6

Jesus – that name causes each one of us to make a choice.

Those who followed Jesus when he was on earth seemed to go in one of two directions. Either they always wanted to worship him and follow him and be with him and hang on his every word, or somehow it went the other way where they wanted to plot against him and crucify him and see him dead.

The one word that was always used for Jesus was “wonder.” No one could be neutral with Jesus, and so it is so today. No one can be neutral with Jesus. There is no middle road with him. There is no lukewarm. There’s yes or no. There’s either/or. There’s the narrow and difficult road or the wide and easy road – one that leads to life, and one that leads to death. There is no middle ground.

Jesus demands everything or nothing. His name has power and every time his name is mentioned, whether you know it or not, your soul is reminded of a choice you have yet to make: Will I do what he says? Or will I do what I say?

Prayer: Dear Lord, I want to do what you say, but my own thoughts so often drown out your words of love and encouragement. I want to do the next right thing. Draw me close. Show me the way. Amen.

Reflection: What is your first response when you hear the name “Jesus”?